verify-proxy-tool command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

verify-proxy-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: verify-proxy-tool: command not found

Solutions to verify-proxy-tool: command not found

How To Fix verify-proxy-tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu verify-proxy-tool is provided by lcmaps-plugins-verify-proxy package.

lcmaps-plugins-verify-proxy is:

The Local Centre MAPping Service (LCMAPS) is a security middleware component that processes the users Grid credentials (typically X.509 proxy certificates and VOMS attributes) and maps the user to a local account based on the site local policy.

This package contains the Verify Proxy plugin.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install lcmaps-plugins-verify-proxy

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install lcmaps-plugins-verify-proxy.

sudo apt -y install lcmaps-plugins-verify-proxy

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install lcmaps-plugins-verify-proxy

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix verify-proxy-tool command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.